- Antlers will grow when their 10 months old
- Fifty percent or more of the yearling bucks from poor deer range in PA may produce only spikes, compared to 10 percent or less from good deer range.
- Growing antlers are covered by a skin called "velvet"
- Start growing by march or april and by August or early September the velvet is rubbed off.
- Antler cycle is influenced by the pituitary gland
- increase in the amount of testosterone in the blood of whitetail bucks in late August and early September cause blood flow to the antlers to stop.
- Shedding usually occurs earlier in northern states then southern states.
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